Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 100, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 23, 1948 Page: 19 of 32
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New Year is our wish
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We wish you each—we wish you all—
the blessings and happiness of this
Yuletide season. Our best wishes
for your happiness now and
all through the New Year.
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through the doorway. A member .
of the congregation calmly tossed
the carcass back outside and when
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our Blessed Lord, who was once
humbled as an infant for our
sakes, may guide and sustain you
and give you hope and sure con-
fidence as you humble before His
sacred altar on Holy Christ-mass
Day; and may the ear of faith
hear the celestial song: “Glory to
God in the highest; and on earth,
peace among men of good-will.”
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Virgie Jones
Millard Jones
Charles O’Neal
Otis Stegall
Jimmy Stuckey
Billy Hughes
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meal which may last for hours,
Belgians get down to their tradi-
tional beer-drinking which they
intersperse with dancing, singing
and parlour games till the morn-
ing.
The South American rhea fre-
quently joins deer or guanacos to
form mixed herds. The ostrich, a
larger member of the same fam-
ily, sometimes forms mixed herds
with zebras and antelopes.
and a most life-like snake.
Another large store devoted it-
self to the “Nursery of 2000 A. D.”
In this piece of mechanical in-
genuity, one nurse, herself a ro-
Mary McCann
Rita Pierce
Bessie Jo Price
Faye MeGaughy
Pat Evans
James Stone
Eddie Felton
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thank you most sincerely for your
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Bob Pitts
Gwen Lyons
Darleen Long-
Dorothy Pierce
Mack McKinney
Margie Wallace
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ATCHISON, Kan. (U.R) — After
six years without a traffic fatality
peace of that time, we are likely
to be mis-led by the calm and
peace of the scenes. Perhaps it
Santa Always
Visits Belgian
Homes First
By WILLIAM ANDERSON
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BRUSSELS—Belgian children,
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By JOHNSTONE BEECH
Rector, St. Paul’s Episcopal Church
As the Holy Season of the Nativity draws near, it is well if we
have a backward glance through the centuries—back and back to
the time when a girl, God’s chosen vessel of grace., gave birth to a
baby in a stable in an obscure eastern city called Bethlehem—which
means the House of Bread. Not all the armies of history, not all the
kings and emperors and conquerors of the world, have had anything
like the effect on man as that seemingly unimportant birthday.
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Greatly in Demand
SALT LAKE CITY, (UP) — A
hotel switchboard operator here
(a brunette) didn’t know what
to do with a deluge of calls for
one of the guests.
Jobs were being offered in an-
swer to a want ad in a local pa-
per. The hotel’s -’phone number
was given. The advertisement was
signed: “A Dumb Blonde.”
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“Spread abroad the Christmas
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To the nations far away,
Pray that East and West may
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Side by side one day;
From the East, the Light, first
shining,
Crowned the West with radi-
ance bright,
Lift we now that torch to gladden
All the world with light.”
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mechanical animals. The witch’s
domain featured such niceties as
However, the big night for walking home from school.
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we offer a little message to tell you
we are remembering all the nice court-
esies afforded us in the past and to let
you know we truly appreciate your
thoughtfulness and consideration.
So, while you are enjoying the fes-
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Birth of Baby in Stable
Affects Entire World
wasn’t that way at all! Perhaps
there was in the heart and the
mind of each of the outwardly
calm shepherds and the men and
the women busily going about the
crowded city, a distrust, a secret
fear, a rancor, a jealousy, a self-
ishness, a sense of not being deep-
ly appreciated nor fully valued.
Perhaps each went his separate
way, and none guessed the secret
heart of the others near him. It
could be so. It is so with us today.
And then comes the wonder
and miracle from God: the re-
velation of Himself in human
fogm: the “very God of very God”
to begin at the lowest step in
human life and show to man the
loving heart of God beating in a
human breast, to show trust and
security and generosity, and love,
and natience. and self-sacrifice.
Weary Journey
It was a long way between the
Star over Bethlehem and the
Cross of Calvary; and for the lit-
tle Baby lying on the straw there
class of business. Pastry shops
are full of traditional sugar pigs,
chocolate santas and chocolate
donkeys carrying sacks of sweets.
One department store this year
devoted much of its window-
space to a panorama of the “En-
chanted Forest” where good, rep-
resented by St. Nicholas, fights
evil, represented by a witch. The
Frederick Remington, Ameri-
can artist, was sent west for his
health as a young man—and be-
came famous painting the Indians
and soldiers he saw on the plains.
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OLEAN, N. Y. (U.R)—Services in
the Open Bible church continued
serenely despite a strong smell
and the arrival of police. Small
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trees, dragons,
came down from heaven—where
the Belgian santa lives—with the
help of the Belgian Airways and
a Dakota. ' On arriving at the
airways terminal, he stepped into
an old mail-coach, decorated for
the occasion and to fanfares from
accompanying trumpeters, toured
the streets of Brussels. Hundreds
of children attended this partic-
ular arrival.
In the schools, teachers are tell-
ing and retelling the story of
Saint Nicholas. The children
learn how the bad butcher cap-
tured the three little* boys and
turned them into bacon, blow the
all-knowing saint got to know of
it, and pretending to be a custom-
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“diapering” of dozens of little for forgiveness Santa forgive remained intent on the sermon,
dolls. ’ | him saying his conscience would
Every store has a Santa Claus, punish him enough. All over Bel-
Some indeed have several. Each gium little faces light up when
store employs different means of by a miracle the good man re-
proclaiming the arrival of its stores the three boys to life and in this town of 12,500 population,
santa. Bang up to date was the happiness, thus proving that good six-year-old John E. Nitz was
much publicized arrival in Brus- will always triumphs over evil. struck fatally by a car while
It is- eternally true: that peace
can come only among men of
good-will.
Christmas is Good Friday! Christ-
mas is not something that hap-
pened once in history, but rather
God is ever being born on this
earth; He is ever suffering; He
is ever healing and sustaining; he
is ever feeding us with Himself;
he is forgiving and blessing us.
This is the true meaning of
Christ-mass here in Gainesville
and in New York and London and
Munich and Rome and Tokyo, and
Stalingrad.
Disquiet in Men’s Hearts
Today, too, there is disquiet in
men’s hearts. We are afraid when
we hear of the treachery of the
traitors in our own high places
seeking to destroy our nation.
Men are starving as slaves to dev-
il-bitten masters of Godless na-
tions. In various parts of the
world at this very moment men
who should be brothers in Christ
are killing each other, and
screams of agony are somewhere
piercing the air as bodies writhe
toward death and blood pours
forth upon the ground — bodies
with blood like ours, like that
used by the Son of God as he
walked among us as a comrade
and teacher. <
These are dark pictures. Is it
too late? Emily Dickinson wisely
said:
“It was too late for man,
But early yet for God . .”
Yes, it is still early for God, and
for each of you who may chance
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pierced her heart in the dark
lonesome latter year when she
looked up at the cross; at her boy,
and remembered her youth, and
His sweet infancy and boyhood,
and there is the flesh of her flesh
(but with the heart of God)
hanging before her as a bleeding
and a broken Thing, and a crowd
jeers and spits, and idly chats
and yawns. Heart of a Mother,
forgive our blind cruelty! Heart
of the Son of God, have mercy
upon us!
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This date is the name-day of
St. Nicholas, patron saint of chil-
dren, from whose name the Anglo-
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purely for children. Adults have
little to do except finance the
good man.
In Belgium, the shops start
very early with decorations and
other signs of the times. From
the beginning of November, the
big chain stores devote most of
their window-space to the leg-
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staff and long flowing red cloak.
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Ohio Nut Growers Seek
Fancy New Variety
CANFIELD, O. (UP). — The
Ohio Nut Growers association is
looking for a new nut. Prize
money has nut-fanciers combing
the brush for a nut tree superior
to those now in cultivation.
“We want to make a three-way
cross and get one new variety that
will bear not only the best nuts,
but the biggest nuts and the most
nuts, all from the same tree,” ex-
plained Raymond E. Silvis, secre-
tary of the association.
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